Welcome to CRAFT.

Submissions for CRAFT Creative Nonfiction are open year-round and offer payment of $200 for accepted original work. This category is for essays and standalone excerpts between 1,000 and 6,000 words. See our Flash Creative Nonfiction category for essays of fewer than 1,000 words.  

As we have always done with our fiction as well, each published work of creative nonfiction will include an author’s note and an editorial introduction that both focus on the craft of the piece. We review literary nonfiction, but are open to a variety of styles—our only requirement is that you show excellence in your craft. 

If you have questions about submissions, please send an email to: contact (at) craftliterary (dot) com 

GUIDELINES: 

• CRAFT Creative Nonfiction submissions are open to all writers.
• We accept longform creative nonfiction only in this category; please, no academic work (we have a separate category for Critical Writing & Interviews).
• International submissions are allowed.
• Please submit work primarily written in English, but conceptually or stylistically necessary codeswitching is warmly welcomed.
• We adhere to a 6,000 word count maximum (for essays of fewer than 1,000 words, please choose the more appropriate Flash Creative Nonfiction category).
• We review literary nonfiction, but are open to a variety of genres and styles including memoir, lyric essays, personal essays, narrative nonfiction, speculative creative nonfiction, and experimental prose—our only requirement is that you show excellence in your craft.
• We do consider reprints, though we are unable to pay for these pieces.
• We allow simultaneous submissions—writers please notify us and withdraw your piece if your work is selected for publication elsewhere. If you withdraw your work, you may submit another piece in the same genre.
• We no longer allow multiple submissions—please send only one piece of longform creative nonfiction at a time, until you've heard back from us.
• If your work is declined, we ask that you wait three months before submitting again to the same genre, unless an editor requests more work from you.
• Please, please, double-space your submission and use Times New Roman 12.
• Please send your piece as a Word doc.
• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history (if applicable).
• We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, disability, family status, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, or for any other reason.
• Additionally, we do not tolerate discrimination in the writing we consider for publication. Work we find discriminatory on any of the bases stated here will be declined without complete review.